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Reminiscence of Night of Sub attacks on Sydney Harbour WWII

by: A Track Winding Back: Morshead Home Oral History & Reminiscence project

Publication date: 2007

Topics: Sub attacks Sydney Harbour WWII, Wounded New Zealand sailors Garden Island WWII,

Marge, a teenage air raid warden in WWII, recalls the reaction of her step-father on the night of the Japanese mini sub attacks on Sydney Harbour. Recalling a story about a vase destroyed on a mantleshelf in Rosebay, she also notes that the reality of war was similarly brought closrer to home through visits to injured New Zealand Navy personnel, hospitalized after Japanese submarine attacks near Garden Island.Oral History Interviewer: Magella Blinksell.